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■^^      [.  VVlien  app!4c;itioa  for  exemption  is  made  by 

^!Viy,.sliociaiker,  tisnuer,  biucksinitli,  wagou-makcr, 

i:r.ll(;r^uiill  eijgiaotT,  or   inilKwriglit,  not  in  tile 

•  ..ipl'iynicut  of  n,  company   or  ekablisliment,   bufi 
\-  i;:l^);^»ior  liim:?elf",  t!ii^p;ii\t^',seeskiiig   oxeHiption 

'  %;.!li  ,»t.Tif^n  vfrit^jg,  un?ler  oMh/'tlnl  lie"  was  3.") 
f  y*r.-t  of  af;c  on  tlie  IGth  of  AprH^HCS,  tint  lig  is 
>:;i!lt'd  iiiid  actually  cn\pli)jeTlvu^is  Vud.»aHe; 
..•.id  was  so  employed  on  rhe  lllli  day  of  October, 
]'6""i,  tliat  lie  i.s  h.ibitually  engaged  in  working  for 
! ill.' public;  that  the  pi'odi'.ct,s  ot  iii.s  labor,  while 
(.  semi  t  from  military  service,  shall  not  be  sold, 
(jii  hinged  or  bartered  for  :i  price  exceeding  the 
1  o.-t  of  pro  luctioii  ami  seventy  live  per  cent,  pro- 
t.t  (hereon;  and  that  he  will  not,  by  any  ariange- 
i.i'iii,  shift  or  contrivance,  ev;-.de   the   law,  or  re 

•  •.■ive  a  greater  price  or  reward  than  it  allows. 

II.  \N'here  apulicatou  is  made  to  exempt  super- 
i.uendents  and  cppratives  in  wool  and  cotton  fac- 
ioies  and  paper  mills,  and  superintendents  and 
inmagcrs  of  wool  carding  machines,  shoemakers, 
liinner.J,  blacksmiths,  wagonmakers,  millcis,  mill 
oiigiiieers  or  mill  wriglits,  not  v.orking  for  them- 
selve.*,  but  in  the  employment  of  some  company 
iir  rstabrishment,  the  iJicsidenl  or  some  director, 
if  tlio  company  be  incorporated,  if  not,  the  pro- 
prietor of  tlie  business,  or  if  there  be  a  firm,  some 
partner  Lhertin,  shall  make  oath  in  writing  tliat 
;!ie  said  superintendents,  operatives,  managers  or 
lac  ci.anie.;,  as  the  case  may  be,  are  skilled  and  ac- 
iiially  cnTjjloyed  in  their  said  vocations;  that  they 
are  i..i.j'iiiui'i_\  '^  I'-^ii'n  ^or  Ihc  pub'ic;  that  they  are 
absolutely  necessary  for  the  successful  prosecution 
of  the  business  ol  liie  cmcern;  that  the  products  ol 
tlicir  iabor  shall  not  be  sold,  or  exchanged,  or  barter- 
ed, during  the  said  cxi'inption,  for  a  price  exceed- 
ing tlie  CO -^t  of  produclijn  and  seventy -five  per  cent, 
p: olit  thereon;  tiiai  no^hift,  contrivance  or  arrange- 
ment shall  be  made  to  c\ade  the  law,  or  to  secure 
a  l:'.rgcr  return  or  profit  than  it  allows;  and  that 
'Xcmption  is  not  souplit  for  a  larger  num'-er  of 
persons  than  is  absolutely  necessary  for  the  sue 
cess'''.il  prosecution  of  the  business  of  the  concern. 

III.  The  foregoing  idHdavits  ^hlll  be  made  b^ 
f.)ie  some  justice  of  the  peace  or  other  person  au- 
t'.-.oiized  by  law  to  administer  oatiis,  and  if  tuch 

•  ju-tice  or  other  person  be  not  personally  known  to 
the  enrol  ling  olH'.-er  to  be  what  he  purports  to  be, 
his  otiici  il  cliar.icter  and  his  right  to  administer 
oatlis  must  be  certitied  by  the  ekrk  of  some  court 
of  :i:  111-,  uiidei  the  seal  of  his  court. 

IV.  The  aHJdaviis  shall  be  returned  to  thoCom- 
muidant  of  Conscripts,  and  exemptions  shall  be 
{.ranted  by  the  enrolling  iiflici-r.  It,  however,  he 
saspect  false  swearing  or  mi.-take,  lie  shall  refuse 
the  excm|ilio!i,  and  rel'''i  tliecisc,  after  first  en- 
loliii  g  the  name.'  of  the  p'srtics  in  iiuestion,  to  tiic 
Coiiiin.uidant  of  Conscripts,  who  will  dispose  of 
't.      If  at  any  timethe  enroiiins  odicor  iiave  ciuse 


to  suspect  false  swearing  or  mistake  in  the  fore- 
going alUdavils,  he  shall  report  the  fact  to  the 
Commandant  of  Conscripts,  andl  if  the  com- 
^mandant  be  satisfied,  after  due  investigation,  that 
a  larger  number  of  persons  is  designedly  ei:^loyed  - 


than  is  necessary,  or  that  a  larger  proQt  tli^  the 
law^iUowsls  recel\^ed  either  directlyor  indi^Cly, 
he  ^vill  (^r^er  the  enrollment  of  the  parties  ex- 


empted upon  the  said  affidavits. 

V.  Applications  for  exemptions  must,  in  all 
cases,  be  made  to  the  Enrolling  officer,  from  whose 
decision  an  appeal  m.iy  be  taken  to  the  Command- 
ant of  Conscripts.  The  Commandant  of  Con- 
scriptr-  will  not  consider  lu-i  application  until  it  has 
been  acted  on  by  the  Enrolling  officer,  (whose  ac- 
tion must  be  endorsed  on  the  application,)  and  re- 
fered  to  the  Commandant  of  Conscripts. 

VI.  Ministers  of  religion  making  application  to 
be  exempted  as  such,  must  make  outli  in  writing 
before  some  officer  authorized  to  administer  oaths, 
that  they  are  authorized  to  preach  according  to  the 
rules  of  their  sect,  and  that  they  were  in  the  regu- 
lar di-charge  of  their  ministerial  duties  on  the  lltli 
of  October,  1862,  and  have  been  so  continuously 
employed  since. 

VI I.  Persons  making  application  for  exemption 
for  any  cause,  other  than  such  as  are  named  herein, 
must  ill  all  ca-;es  .':tate  their  age  in  the  affidavit 
upon  whicli  the  application  is  based. 

VIII.  Persons  who  have  been  exempted  on  ac- 
count of  vocations  which  they  have  abandoned, 
must  be  put  in  the  service  at  once;  and  mechanics 
who  have  been  exempted  must  keep  on  hand  a  sup- 
ply of  luaterial,  necessary  to  keep  up  their  shops 
and  business,  and  must  not  exceed  the  charges  de- 
scribed in  paragraph  No.  1,  of  these  instructions. 
If  they  do,  they  forfeit  their  exemptions,  and  all 
such  must  be  put  in  the  army. 

IX.  Agents,  ov>ners  and  overseers  of  plantations 
of  twenty  negroes  must  state  in  writing  upon  oath 
made  bolbroaomc  officer  authorized  to  administer 
oaths  according  lo  law,  that  they  were  3.')  years  of 
age  on  the  IGth  of  April,  lt-'62;  and  that  there  is 
no  other  white  male  adult  not  liable  to  military 
service  on  the  plantation  under  their  controU. 

X.  Physicians  claiming  exemption  must  state  in 
Willing,  on  oath  made  before  an  officer  authorized 
to  adiuiuister  oaths,  tliat  they  were  35  years  of 
age  on  the  16th  of  April,  1862;  and  that  they  now 
are,  and  were  for  the  last  five  years  preceding  the 
lltli  of  Oct.,  1862,  engaged  in  the  actual  practice 
of  tlieir  profession. 

XI.  All  exemptions  heretofore  granted  not  in 
con!'ormi;y  with  these  instructions,  are  hereby  re- 
voked. 

B.  F.  DANLEY, 
Coiii'dt  Conscripts,  District  Arkansas. 
Offick  Coiv.manuant  Co.nscripts,^ 
Utile  Rock,  April  21.  1863:     J 


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